UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Aarhus Convention

UNITED NATIONS _____ ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee REPORT by Veit Koester, Chair Fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties Chisinau, 29 June – 1 July 2011

CONTENT 1. Mandate 2. Members of the Compliance Committee 3. Parties and civil society 4. Meetings and communications 5. Some personal remarks

Mandate § decision I/7 of the Meeting of the Parties § flexibility § recommendations subject to agreement with the Party concerned § mandate by the MOP to the WGP/Bureau? § monitoring of fulfillment of recommendations and reporting to the MOP § progressively increasing workload § mandate by the MOP to the WGP/Bureau?

Members of the Committee § § § § § Merab Barbakadze Jonas Ebbesson Ellen Hey Jerzy Jendroska Alexander Kodjabashev Veit Koester Svitlana Kravchenko Gerhard Loibl Vadim Ni

Parties and civil society § co-operation with Parties § mutual trust and respect § co-operation with the NGO community § well prepared and reasonable communications

Meetings and communications § 13 meetings, almost all of four days § 35 communications + 4 pending § 10 inadmissible or closed without findings § 15 findings adopted + 1 partly concluded with findings in April § 1 concluded with findings in Chisinau § 12 pending and 1 partly pending

Some personal remarks

Thank you!